Howdy, Dave!
The 470's arrival was slightly before my time (I worked there '77 &
'78), so I didn't know (or remember) the actual story of how it got its
proper coloring. Amdahls were supposedly red, but it was definitely
enough of an orangish hue to cause offense :-). The only burnt orange
tolerated in College Station was the Thanksgiving Eve Bonfire.
I wonder if it's coincidence that tu (sorry, THE UoT) also got an 470.
Gig 'em Aggies!
sas '79
On 3/31/2018 11:29, Dave Jones wrote:
Howdy, Steve.
I, too, as a student at TAMU in the early to mid 70s and what I remember was
that it was an Amdahl 470/V6 that was delivered to the DPC (Data Processing
Center, we Aggies are very literal about a lot of things). The day it arrived
and was set up in the machine room, replacing the old IBM S/360-65, the
center's director was none too pleased about the burnt orange skin color. He
had the Amdahl CEs take the covers off, and out to the parking lot, where they
were repainted Maroon with spray cans of Rust-Oleum from the local hardware
store.
Gig 'em.
DJ '75
On Fri, 30 Mar 2018 09:26:29 -0400, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
Now I have to correct you there! I was a student at A&M in the mid-70s,
and also worked as a student operator at the DPC . I assure you A&M's
school colors are MAROON & white (burnt orange belongs to that silly little
school in Austin), and Amdahl did trim our new 470/V6 in MAROON.
Few people saw it though, as it was kept in a room by itself, kept at about
60 degrees. The powers that be were paranoid about it overheating (Amdahls
were air-cooled, as long as they had power for the fans; otherwise they
melted).
sas
On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 9:18 AM, John McKown <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 5:37 AM, R.S. <[email protected]>
wrote:
W dniu 2018-03-29 o 22:57, Phil Smith pisze:
Not suggesting that. But if, say, EvilCorp said "We need tapes, damnit,
and will migrate our 58,000MSUs off of Z unless you continue them", POK
might blink. Or not.
This is subject of discussion like "I would buy ten z14's at full
capacity
, but I demand the chassis has to be yellow". Would IBM agree for yellow?
I bet yes, but we also know there won't be such demand. Only serious
companies do buy a lot of MIPS and their requirements are also serious.
I remember back in the 1980s that Texas A&M University got some S/370 that
had "burnt orange" panels. That's the school color.
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
--
I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove
it.
Maranatha! <><
John McKown
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